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Recent Examples of padroneInstead, much of this awkward English-language period piece focuses on peasants’ struggle to overthrow padrone control just after the First World War.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
The celebratory July 4 meal would certainly have kept the innkeeper, Daniel Smith, busy replenishing the finest bottles of Madeira from behind the locked bar—perhaps overhearing snippets of chatter among the delegates.
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Victoria Flexner,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
The innkeeper who greets the same families every season.
The Jac Lewis Foundation, created to honor Jac, who died by suicide in 2019, recently launched a mental health hub in partnership with the Welsh Rugby Union, of which the Prince is patron.
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Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
The staff and patrons of a liquor store attached to The Queenscliffe Family Hotel on Kangaroo Island in Australia were in for a shock when a furry customer made its way through the front door.
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